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Five questions blog

Posted in: Blog on May 27th, 2010 | Comments: none

There are some wonderful places to discover in Nepal. Unfortunately, most visitors stick very much to the beaten trail. If you find yourself on the lower part of the trail heading to Everest base camp in peak season and you might find that you are sharing it with 300 others.

The Annapurna area is very much similar and that is where most trekkers head to ‘experience’ Nepal. It’s not that these areas are not beautiful, they are stunning. Robin Boustead, a pioneer of the Great Himalaya Trail has this to say on the matter in a recent interview for the German Alpin Magazine:

For the last five years I have received many emails from people asking me where would I recommend to go trekking. I have not sent a single person to either the Everest or the Annapurna Region because I don’t feel that they are authentic trekking experiences. You come to see the mountains here but you come back because of the people. And if you are trekking along trails where there are hundreds of other westerners and you are staying in teahouses that are run by frantic overworked people, who cannot spend any time with you – how authentic is that? Why would you not just go for a walking holiday in Europe. That is something that I feel that is lost here in Nepal. People don’t come away having had a genuine authentic Nepali experience.

So in an effort to uncover where the true authentic Nepal experience is to be found, we’re asking a number of people have a special relationship with the country and who’ve come back year after year, five simple questions.

What is your favourite place in Nepal?
Why was it particularly special?
What is your favourite thing about Nepal or your favourite memory from time spent here?
Which place in Nepal would you like to go to that you have not yet been to?
What advice do you have for visitors coming to trek in the Nepal Himalaya?

Some answers are long, some are short. Here are the people we’ve talked to so far: